Active inhibition of a distractor word: The distractor precue benefit in the stroop color-naming task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 799-812

  Chao, Hsuan Fu ^a,b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active inhibition; Cognitive control; Distractor precue benefit; Stroop effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STROOP TEST;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST;

EID: 79958740332     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022191     Document Type: Article

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